‘New Appointment in Railway service’: Langur seen ‘working’ in a railway office

The video was reportedly taken at Bolpur Shantiniketan railway station in West Bengal.

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A video of a langur “working” inside a railway office is now going viral. The video shows a langur sitting on an office chair in front of a computer, flipping through the files and typing on the keyboard.

It appears that the simian learned to mimic these actions by observing people. The langur appears unbothered by the people who are excitedly watching it. This video was reportedly taken at the Bolpur Shantiniketan railway station office in West Bengal.

Popular Instagrm account @the_heavy_locopilot, which is dedicated to unique things related to the railways, shared this clip on September 14. The video was captioned, “New Appointment in Railway service”. So far, the clip has over 7.4 lakh likes.

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Commenting on this video, an Instagram user wrote, “And we were thinking AI will take away our jobs😂”. Another person wrote, “Before there was gender equality and now species equality. Our India is really great. Equality for everything. 👏👏”. The most liked comment on the video read, “Leave my guy alone he’s just trying to pay taxes”.

In June 2021, a video that showed a monkey roaming inside a coach of a Delhi Metro surfaced on the social media. It appeared that the monkey entered the Metro coach on its own accord. No pets or animals such as cats or dogs are not allowed inside the Delhi Metro premises, unless they are security dogs.